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Show DON'T LET WATER PIPES FREEZE UP By Robert Crookstou " The average person will regard this letter with little or no interest in-terest and will say "I guess we the steam explosion, this advice is not necessary. When a pipe is broken and water running around on the floor, don't start running around in a circle, or. trying to hold it with a rag. Open all the faucets, this will reduce the flow of the leak on the floor, then go into the basement and close the service ser-vice valve. And ' every member . of the household should know where the valve is and . also know what it is there for. know enough to not let our water pipes freeze up!" Well we will change that sentence sen-tence and put it this way: The average person should know enough en-ough to safeguard their plumbing plumb-ing but they don't always do it! And another thing we do know real well is that my advice ad-vice freely given, and especially not asked for, is of no avail, but for all that, there are quite a number of people who ' vacate their homes about this time and go somewhere to spend the Christmas holidays and in the excitement of getting away they forget to drain all the plumbing fixures, pipes, traps and tanks, then when they return there is quite a wreck, because ice will break anything, and so willj steam, and be careful about mak-j ing too hot a fire in any stove or furnace that has a water-heating water-heating coil or jacket. No stove or furnace having a jacket or soil and water in, should have the fire dead out for more than a few hours during freezing tem-pertaures. tem-pertaures. Then, if there is any doubt about the jacket being frozen, watch it carefully after the fire is made, the pipe leading from the jacket to the top of the tank should be starting to warm 20 minues after the fire is made, and if it is not warm go to the neighbor and get hot water, then with a hot cloth, such as an old towel, warm both pipes connecting stove and tank. For those who have had a stove blow up. or have seen one after |